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Author(s): Nemecek, Sasha; Nemecek, S (AUTHOR)
Source:
Scientific American. Apr2000, Vol. 282 Issue 4, p24-24. 1p. 1 Color Photograph.

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- Subject Terms:
  MEAT preservation; PREHISTORIC food; FISHER, Daniel; REFRIGERATION as a disinfectant; HISTORY; FOOD preservation; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY; FOOD microbiology; FOOD habits; TASTE
- Abstract:
  Offers research determining the dietary habits of early Americans. Belief that humans used frozen lakes as refrigeration devices to store excess meat; Discovery of poles embedded into the bottom of a pond surrounded by mastodon bones; Research of paleontologist Daniel C. Fisher to test the edibility of submerged food by actually eating some horsemeat he had submerged; Characteristics of the water which could help preserve the meat.

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